Glowie General

I wish Windows users had created an unified Windows documentation site.

Is there a way to remove the Global Device Identifier yet?

>>109553579
you know it’s pretty much microsoft themselves that are making these threads vecause they’d rather have people use windows 10 iot ltsc than linux
like the activator is hosted on github, a microsoft owned company. how telling isn’t that
microsoft has never really fought piracy, they’d rather have nearly a monopoly

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Massgrave does what??? WTF??? have any of you faggots actually reviewed the source code or do you just depend on word of mouth!?

>>109553995
Sounds like FUD to me. No one has ever said this happens.
And why would it happen? They have nothing to gain.

Posted in the old thread accidently

I've gotten a new Lenovo laptop, and I can't decide whether to just run a debloater, or to install either Win 10 or Win 11 ltsc. I'm worried I'll lose a lot of manufacturer customizations that are actually important, like fn keys and things like that. I'm not sure what to choose, any advice?

>>109554252
One thing you could do is use a WinPE live ISO like the one HirenBootCD or Sergei Strelec offer and use DISM through that to extract all the PC's OEM drivers to a USB so after you wipe the OEM install and install 11 LTSC over it you can just re-install all those drivers through Device Manager via pointing it as the USB driver folder.

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>>109553995
If I had a penny for every time an user doesn't know how things work and jumps to their own arbitrary paranoid made-up conclusions I'd probably have enough to be a direct Microsoft competitor

windows 12 when
>>109544130
yes scoop only for those

I'm following the 1st guide for win11 iot ltsc, it says "At installation type, choose Custom Install. At the drive selection step it's important here to let the Windows partition take the entire drive first, then shrink it after installation if you want to add extra partitions."

I didn't see the custom install option, abd my drive is alreasdy partitioned into 5 partitions: a system partition, MSR, a primary partition, A recovery partition and a 344 kb unallocated partition. Am I correct assuming that I have to delete all these so it is 1 partition of unallocated space?

Hello guys. Why is it uninstalling stuff completely until nothing is left of an app such a headache on windows? What are the best apps to help me? Wiztree and revo/geek uninstaller? It frustrates me a lot because I don't have much storage space and can't immediately see what is taking up so much.

>>109555856
Something like BCUninstaller works well enough.

>>109555856
Revo Uninstaller.

>>109555859
>>109555860
Thoughts on portable apps? I fucking hate shit being in my registry and I'm bad at keeping my OS clean and track all the apps I have installed. I just keep downloading shit and when the storage is full I feel like I need to nuke it and reinstall.

>>109555780
>and my drive is alreasdy partitioned
you mean it was partitioned BEFORE you boot up the installer or the installer partitioned it that way? if it's the later then you don't need to delete anything since the primary partition (Windows partition) should already be occupying most of the drive anyway

>>109555780
Just use Shift+F10 to use diskpart to clean the target drive of all of its partitions. Then you can just install to the clean unpartitioned space.

I'm still using Windows 10 LTSC. Should I upgrade to W11?

>>109555888
I keep most apps on a separate partition save for a few things that are (at a glance) too much trouble to make portable, if you can do that it would save you time later but you'd also waste some time setting things up for that to work.
Most apps do need registry entries to function but rarely use them to store config/preferences and can recreate them just fine on a new system.

You can make most apps "portable" by just copying the installed program folder alongside the app's config folder (usually on %UserProfile%\AppData) to some other drive/partition and using symlinks to have the original config path write settings to your new drive/partition instead, then on a reinstall you just run a batch script to recreate those and your copied app should run fine with your saved config.

That said it's hit or miss since you have to put the effort of learning per-app dependencies and paths so you can symlink everything correctly, the more apps you use the more work you'd have to put for it, maybe there are apps that can automate all that but I'm already used to doing it by hand.

I usually only ever install things like .net runtime, visual C++, office, etc while actual usable 3rd party apps are all portable and persist reinstalls.

>>109556122
You might as well upgrade to IoT LTSC 2024 if you want.

>>109555888
>Thoughts on portable apps?
Windows tracks a lot of this automatically. Check out "shellbag", taskbar, or Event Viewer forensics. Even portable apps usually leave behind system traces and artifacts regardless of the developer's intent.
You should use VMs with snapshots or perhaps sandboxing applications.

It has been an eternity since I last upgraded and now I need new shit
Do people still use winrar nowadays or is it a relic of the past?

>>109556300
Winrar is fine. You can also use 7zip.

>>109556300
7zip is the go-to.

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>>109553995
I guess Linuxtroons finally got tired of no one falling for the KMS fud they tried to spread for weeks so now they have to try... Random Reddit posts kek.

>>109553494
I don't get it
what's the point of using Windows if you're gonna remove all things Windows anyway
to run win32 executables? just use Linux with proton, they run the same or better

>>109556396
Being selective about what you like is normal and healthy.
Also isn't thinkering to your heart's content the Linux way? Why is it suddenly a bad thing when it's about Windows?

>>109556608
> isn't thinkering to your heart's content the Linux way?
not really
it's just an OS son, I use Linux to have something light that just werks and runs the shit I want. I don't give a crap about tinkering with it

>>109554334

aww arent you cute you likely have netbios over tcp enabled

Does shutup10 disagree with disabling Automatic updates for any particular reason?

>>109555999
I'm not sure, but I assume it is the former since there was already a prev windows installed

>>109556015
I'll try that, thanks

>>109553995
Every single time they say MAS hacks your system they never show any proof, not even a reply trying to explain, because they don't even understand how computers work

>>109556709
and we use Windows because it also runs the shit we want, that's also it

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I love Windows!

>>109556122
pretty much only if you have a 12th gen intel processor or newer, because of the e-cores. otherwise it's recommended just staying on windows 10 iot ltsc, unless you have programs that don't work on it. as far as I know that's only the newest versions of photoshop that is kind of relevant

>>109556300
I prefer winrar. It just werks.

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>>109556773
you sound rabid

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>>109539938
>>109539986
Do you need winhance though?
Can't I do it natively?

See, I do want updates. What I don't want is Windows deciding it is just going to update NOW and closing all my shit to do it. There must be a way to turn that off.

Also, how do I select what % battery saver turns on at? It's aggressive at 30% right now, which kinda sucks when I keep my laptop only charged to 60%

>>109553995
>doesnt show command

>>109556300
nanazip

New Windows Preview Update Just Dropped

They Fixed Everything

>>109558728
massive if positive

>>109558189
also except when you want to add corruption resilience to your archives

>>109558751
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-insider/release-notes/release-preview-24h2-25h2/build-26100-9267-26200-9267

I love Windows

So, W11 Enterprise IoT LTSC is still a meme?

>>109560334
Works fine for me. It's IoT LTSC 2021 but 11.

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>>109560334
Works fine.

>want the clean install of IoT LTSC
>want the updates that are coming to 26H2
Is installing IoT LTSC 24H2 then using mas to switch to Enterprise GAC a good idea? Or can I somehow install Enterprise 26h2 when it comes out?

>>109560947
If you want to get the 27H2 updates on LTSC in the future you should probably just wait for IoT LTSC 2027 and use GAC 11 Enterprise for now.

>>109560947
What are the updates that are coming to 26H2 that you want?

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>>109558305
GPE > Administrative Templates > Configure Automatic Updates > Disabled

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Windows 11 is finally usable on a 1080p display.

>>109561789
thank you very much anon!
I was looking through the help section there, there are numbered options 1-7. How do I select those? I like the sound of #2 which is I'll be notified before any updates.
I don't mind Windows downloading updates automatically, I just don't like it when it decides it's going to install them regardless of what I'm doing

>>109562730
You select Enable then choose from the left window dropdowns/typing fields.

fren help
im using windows 7, want to know any tools to know which my msu is missing so i can update it.

do you use mpv on windows?
does it work as well as on linux?

>>109562885
Simplix Update Pack will install any update that 7 has ever gotten.

>>109562904
mpv works totally fine on Windows. I've used it for well over 5 years or so.

>>109562904
Been using it for Video/Audio/Image viewing on Windows 11, works the same it does on Linux.

Anons, do you enable 'get the latest updates as soon as they're available' or no?

>>109563116
Never. I just turn my computer on on a patch tuesday and run Windows Update to get it installed.

Hey quick question, I tried downgrading a laptop of mine from Win11 home to Windows 10 IoT. On the installation medium, it doesn't recognize the trackpad. IoT version is 2021, the Laptop was made in 2022. Will it pull the new drivers in to use the trackpad once Windows 10 is on it, or am I better off putting Win11 2024 IoT on, because that's the OS that the laptop was designed for?

>>109556396
de-windowizing would be trying to entirely run linux programs through wsl

>>109563984
find the drivers on the laptops site, it most likely had the drivers for windows 10 there. windows 11 drivers usually also work if they're not available there
it's better using windows 10 iot ltsc as long as you don't need the core optimizer for intel 12th gen or newer, or you have programs that don't work with it like the newest photoshop versions.

>>109564045
It's an Intel 11th gen, thankfully. I don't use Photoshop, so I'll give it another try.

What is the best way to watch YouTube on desktop? I sign into JewTube and it signs into my google account everywhere on the browser so looking to avoid that.

>>109564347
You can just copy paste your video link into mpv. But if you don't want open youtube at all you can probably do a mix of yt-dlp and mpv to keep everything in the command line. Try asking in >>109537196

>>109560954
>>109561338
I mainly want the K2 updates rolling out like moveable taskbar and general performance improvements. I've read on mas' website and their discord that LTSC is really only for people who hate updooting. Does Enterprise ship as clean as IoT LTSC? Even with scripts like winutils, shutup10, or winhance - debloating feels like a pain in the ass because I'm never quite sure if they'll break something in the future.

>>109562904
I use mpc-qt, but if I'm being honest, mpc-hc just werkz and even comes with a settings GUI.

>>109498103
Found through tinkering it's happening when I change a folder like Downloads/Videos/Pictures from the default C location.

>>109553494
how can I get the latest Windows 10 updates? I have Windows 10 Pro 22H2 with a legit activation from Win7 to 10 free offer that MS did a while back.
Is there a hack or do I need to install an LTSC version?

>>109564347
https://invidious.io/

>>109562099
>everyone that crosses me is a troon
OBSESSED

>>109564768
use MAS to activate the ESU updates

>>109563116
not much of a reason to do it unless you want to test them or are in a preview channel. I normally just go and check for updates if I want them. I'd say it's better to have it off because in the case some update breaks something, you can quickly pause them before Windows installs it

Is there ar eason people use openshell instead of startallback? A friend said to avoid the paid version for some reason

still using kms-vl-all

Does Windows 11 have better laptop battery life than Windows 10?

>>109553494
What do we do in November when the last Nvidia drivers for Windows 10 is released? Are we screwed for vidya after that?

>>109565971
Wait till it happens, in November- we get to finally see if they're serious about remaking all of the design elements in WinUI instead of reactJS cargo cult bullshit. Which will, hopefully, put the last and final problems with Windows 11 behind us.

>>109565971
if you care about latest games you will update to windows 11, i'm still waiting on 10

>>109565971
I don't play newer games so not my problem pretty much.

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>>109564347
like this

So around 2 more weeks for proper Taskbar huh

>>109566908
are the docs in the video description still working?

Is there an easy way to upgrade to win 11 ltsc iot from win 10 ltsc iot?

>>109567964
In-place upgrading via mounted ISO. Just get the IoT LTSC 2024 ISO and mount it, then run the setup.exe. Just make sure to check the box to say to not update right now (do that later after you're done installing) and that it says it'll keep your stuff.

>>109553494
>learned about win98 quick install
>decided to try it on my chromebook
>failed
>idea.jpg
>install it on a mini PC with a ryzen 9

idk if it'll even find the drivers but fuck it i don't use this mini pc anymore anyways, so i'll just make it a super buff windows 98 computer, if it doesn't work imma do vista next.

>>109568533
yea idk wtf im doing wrong, it says it'll work on UEFI systems but yet its not for me.

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SOON™

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>>109569095

Is it worth hopping from LTSC 2024 to a GAC edition like Enterprise? I know Microsoft is making an effort in unfucking some things but I don't know if LTSC is getting any of those updates until 2027 if/when it comes out.

>Windows hopping
Why are you like this?

>>109569243
it's probably going to get bug fixes and performance improvements that shares with 25H2. As for stuff like new taskbar and start menu features probably not because those can be considered feature updates, which LTSC doesn't include.

I'd say that since you're on 24H2 you should wait until around next year or until 26H2 releases for those fixes to settle down, because even if they're improving things the updates themselves are still annoying some users and are a bit unpredictable. Then you can decide if GAC is worth it by then

>>109569308
it's a rare predicament of a single anon and not the same as the autistic behavior linux users are known for

>>109569326
They fucked with start menu at least once on IoT LTSC 11.

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This driver is buggy. I have since then turned off Windows update from including drivers, but this entry from Settings won't go away. I tried Disk Cleanup. Manually deleting SoftwareDistribution\Download folder. Nothing makes it go away. I just want to clear it and check for updates again!

How the fuck is there not a refresh/recheck button!!! What kind of morons designed this

>>109553494
This general needs a better FAQ section. It mostly talks about "muh ltsc" and doesn't say anything useful.

>>109569087
It's coming out on 20th to 25th of August, if you got the 'Get the latest updates...' turned on.

>>109571271
It's definitely a bit messy, and when it's changed somehow the OP changes it right back, so whatever I guess.
Basically when it comes to what Windows to use, use either GAC 10 Enterprise with ESU activated, GAC 11 Enterprise or IoT LTSC 2021 (10) or 2024 (11), which give more overall years of updates compared to GAC even with ESU.

>>109566908
I really want to know exactly what this setup is.

>>109571644
https://youtu.be/Ye5EuGQWpf8?si=qxDci9-J6ZbGQ1bd
the guides are in the vid desc
from 3 years ago so not sure if they still work but im going to try it soon

Not gonna lie, I installed Windows 11 and it feels more "cozy" than Windows 10, might be just my mental retardation though.

>>109572640
feels about the same except the start menu and explorer are noticeably slower

>>109566908
Great tastes in music
>>109572610
Let us know because I was doing something similar with a slower computer, and think it's about time to just migrate to this full-time

>>109572662
And the customization is worse.
StartAllBack has been a blessing and also the thing they should have done the whole time: Keep the flat theme, which isn't a bad theme, and rearrange it to be more like Windows.

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>>109553494
https://youtu.be/fdFO6T6XysM?si=UrB2VXuG4cD26qo_
The new context menu in windows 11 is amazing, Linux users on suicide watch

>>109573038
[spoiler]I don't want to bring console warring in here but KDE has been able to do that for years[/spoiler]

>>109568533
ok so update, i was able to get windows 98 installed on an HP Compaq Pro 6300 but after rebooting it just didn't load, so then i tried windows XP and I get a blue screen, so now i'm going with Vista. Why Vista, why not?

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>I hate my desktop. I look at my screen and I’m like “shit man, I have a billboard in front of me.” It’s just so noisy, so neon, and it’s all competing for my attention. It just looks ugly. And I kind of want, like, a quieter, simpler, cleaner working environment that is optimized for all the things that I’m interested in, all the things I wanna get done.

fellas, should i use w11 ltsc? will i need to install the graphic drivers manually or does Windows Update do that? im a bit confused since i heard lstc windows isnt really made for home desktops and is mostly for mission critical hardware and that its a bit wonky on desktops

>>109573099
>type your product key
>next
>you sure you want to install with no product key
>next
>hour glass
is my hardware just to new for vista or does vista just not work with ventoy? i'm super confused right now.

>>109573145
windows 11 ltsc is functionally the same as windows 11 pro but without bloatware and longer update cycle. it will automatically update drivers if you let it connect to the internet unless you unplug your ethernet or not put in your wifi code.

>>109573201
aight, but if w11 ltsc exists, why do some people still use w10 ltsc? also im a tad worried with how my pc will do with 8gb of ram and a i5 from 2012(one of the reasons i was running linux for like almost a decade or so)

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>>109573238
>why do some people still use w10 ltsc?
some people are too lazy to update if their machine already works. dont fix whats not broken eh?

i'm using about 5gb total ram on 11 ltsc with just the browser open with 3 tabs. if you want to play games or something you really need 16gb or more.

>>109573186
do you have a nvme drive? if you do then you need to sideload nvme driver since that didnt get added until windows 7 and later.

>>109573283
nope its a normal HDD

>>109573266
My W11 Pro with GPEdit tweaks uses this much with FF open lol

>>109573266
1. web browsers are memory hoes
2. i dont play the latest games since i really havent found them entertaining
3. i dont usually have more than 1 or 2 apps running since i like to keep my screen clean

so i guess i should be ok?

>>109573291
maybe try different iso or smaller usb

>>109573315
i only have a 16 gig sadly.

>>109573321
i bet if you burned it to disc it would work

>>109573328
i don't have a disc drive, right now im trying direct USB outside of ventoy, if not i guess im just gonna do windows 7 and call it a day.

>>109573337
it could also possibly be bios related (csm,legacy,etc)

>>109573294
>so i guess i should be ok?
sure, remember to setup that pagefile.

>>109573350
checked that, wasn't at all.

>>109573385
aye thanks

>>109573293
No browser open its only 3gb of usage

>>109573391
yea it was ventoy, vista is installing fine now direct from USB

do the cool widgets even work on vista anymore, like the weather one and such?

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>>109573410

>>109573457
the weather one doesnt work anymore. i think you can still set up rss feeds or winamp stuff though.

>>109573476
thats a shame, i loved the weather one.

ok vista anon here
after installing updates happens it just goes
:windows could not update the computer's boot configuration. Installation cannot proceed.

Wtf do I do now?

>>109573555
ok so it was cause I was booting from UEFI which vista doesn't like, so i had to reflash in MBR, i swear this shit is a headache.

>>109573801
ok so after all this i am finally booting into vista ultimate, sad i couldn't do windows 98 or XP but I guess these newer hardware just is too much for those.

>>109553494
>Usage: paste this into Powershell, run.
>irm https://get.activated.win | iex
>newest antivirus update on windows blocks the command
I had to use the traditional way today. I guess I was a retard for not activating before I updated the antivirus.

ok vista is up and running and i have internet with mypal but now i can't figure out how to activate cause vista doesn't have powershell so MAS doesn't work.

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Thank you Windows for being a fantastic operating system.

so after messing around in vista i noticed i can't install my video card drivers at all, i tried all the work arounds and just doesn't work,

>>109574165
>uses antivirus ngmi

>>109575637
what gpu

>>109575731
rx 550, i gave up i need to get an older video card at this point.

Did Win10 64-bit Chromium-based browsers break for anyone else recently? Now it seems only the 32-bit versions work.

>>109574395
based

>>109572610
doesnt yt-dlp support twitch?
i remember watching twitch streams on mpc-hc with yt-dlp

>>109576273
>doesnt yt-dlp support twitch?
yes it does

does anyone know if league of legends requires secure boot on windows 10?

>>109575974
Just you.

>>109576617
Vanguard needs secure boot and a TPM to allow LoL to work on Windows.

which one do you trust more chocolatey or scoop?

>>109576909
winget

>>109576915
i already use winget
i just want a second option

>>109576921
idk if trust comes into my decision, i think choco has more packages but i like how scoop uses the shims for semi-portable-ish apps.
use all 3, no harm in it that i know of

>>109576921
but i dont like how scoop puts everything into one folder in start menu if you dont tinker with it. just one of those things, scoop is best for lean portable apps where choco tries to be a full replacement for the install system. i mean im grossly oversimplifying but i hope you get my gist. each has their place

>>109576921
mixing chocolatey and winget might lead to issues so you're best second option is scoop. you can also view the manifests easily with scoop cat [package name]

>>109576954
yeah using both chocolatey and winget seems kinda redundant

>>109576909
I trust my own Portable folder.

>>109573038
customisable context menus have been a thing in several file managers on linux for a long time

>>109573038
Better late than never but kind of insignificant. Copy, cut, paste, properties, new folder, etc. all the useful stuff has a keyboard shortcut. What do you even use the context menu for to begin with? Except for programs that you deliberately added there like 7zip, which still isn't possible on w11 according to what he says at 4:10

Hi, I had a question I was curious about. I got a new laptop running windows 11 home and was able to uninstall edge because of the digital marketa act, since I set the region as an eu country on startup.

Now, I did a fresh install of windows 11 lstc via the guide as recommended by a friend, and I apparantly can't do this anymore. I was curious if it was because the lstc iso was US? Does anyone know?

>>109580951
check that your region is currently set to eu, pretty sure you can change it post-install

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>>109553494
https://archive.org/search?tab=all&query=LTSC&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22software%22

Thoughts?

>>109581436
we're so back

>reassembling pc after 3 months of it being off (only the ram and gpu were out)
>having trouble with getting past bios post
>eventually post with 1 stick of ram
>restart a few times to make sure everything's good
>post with 2 sticks of ram
>restart a few times to make sure everything's good
>now enable xmp profile
>suddenly stuck in blue screen smiley face bootloop hell
why.
ddr4. w10 ltsc

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>>109581907
tried again and now I'm getting this horseshit I've never seen in my life so now I guess I have to also reassemble my laptop to make a w10 bootable usb. fucks sake

>>109581938
just booted fine with xmp off, why is there always some stupid fucking shit
god FORBID I don't turn my pc on for 3 months, holy shit

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Getting "INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR (0xA0)" once a day since installing my intel arc b580. Before that I had been using the igpu in my 7600x with zero issues.
Did a clean install of the latest drivers, both in normal mode as well as using DDU. Still happens. The newest intel Driver from a few days ago also doesn't help.
I'm clueless as to what else could be a fix.

So when the fuck are we getting KB5120998 on stable, waiting a fucking decade for Small Taskbar holy shit.

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Pretty significant performance improvements in gaymen from the latest AMD chipset driver released the other day if you haven't updated already

The default group policy delay from WinUtil for security updates is 7 days so I should see the lastest Patch Tuesday update hit my install tomorrow, right? Didn't feel like grabbing it and installing manually the moment it went live, and apparently it's pretty decent, Low Latency Profile for other programs and such.

>>109573266
People are just squeamish about Win11. I was as well, but got bored one day, decided to upgrade. Very little broke, and what broke were my own things, not fundamentals, so it was expected. Worst part was trying to find a good working dark Win32 theme, but I managed to find one. Haven't noticed a difference since, besides being on 11 and noticing certain differences.

The worst thing IMO is that the keyboard layout pop-up is no longer instantaneous and when the Low Latency Profile update happened, it didn't affect it, so when you only tap Win+Space the flyout won't show up. Retarded oversight from Jeetsoft's they haven't rectified yet.

>>109571207
>>109582255
Which one do I trust

>>109582124
another month

>>109582255
the new windows preview update is also good. titanfall2 never felt smoother.

>>109582351
They're unrelated. Ones a chipset driver, the other is a gpu driver. You never want the driver from Windows Update, get it from the actual website.

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Did you know that Microsoft changed the Blue Screen of Death to a Black Screen of Death?

In case you need that all-dark theme for Win11:
https://github.com/winui64/Full-Dark-Theme-for-Windows-11

>>109582414
This.
And also the thing went away after a couple of reboots and I can check for updates again.

anyone here uses android emulators?
which one do you think its the best?

>>109582450
yeah it's been some months since the change, it's basically still a BSOD kek

>>109583105
They're all chinese spyware so just pick whichever one you think might rape you the least. Bluestacks still works I guess

>>109583105
Bluestacks or LDPlayer are your best bets and both are fairly easy to neuter when it comes to their telemetry/ad garbage. Shit like using a DNS like Adguard/Quad9 within the virtual Android network settings, replacing their defaul home screens with something like Lawnchair or Nova Launcher, using Aurora Store or Obtainium to install apps within it, blocking some of the extraneous .exes like the updater/reporter with the firewall.

>>109583105
I've been using LDplayer since 2019.
I lose my Facebook password twice a month.
Every night the CPU fan makes random noises.

>>109583105
I use mumu.
It's okay. If I didn't already have it installed I wouldn't install it now because I don't trust like that anymore, but it performs well and has minimal unintrusive ads.

>>109583105
You can mirror your real phone if you're afraid of spyware https://github.com/genymobile/scrcpy

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How do i remove my microsoft account from win 10? Ive had a local account for years now and i signed into my outlook and suddenly my entire pc is using it.

>>109586663
You fell for the "sign into this app only" box not being out and proud? Sucks for you anon. You basically need to turn it back into a local account via the "Sign in with a local account instead" or "Stop automatically logging into apps with this account" link under Your Info in the Accounts section of Settings.

>>109586721
so I need to copy everything into a new local account and delete my old one?
I mean, i do need to sort out my files and get some new external harddrives/backup, but man thats inconvinient. When I build a new pc I am switching

>>109586805
These options just convert an MS account into a local one. You shouldn't lose anything, but you'll need to make a new password and such.

>>109556396
I want mediatek and nvidia to work properly

>>109586838
im sorry but i cant find the sign in with local account instead option

>>109586952
>>109586838
anon anon, i found it, it was just called stop the auto login with mircosoft apps

>>109586721
>>109586838
thank you so much btw,there was also a panic moment where it logged me into a blank desktop

I just saw a Preview Update (KB5120998) appear and disappear from Updates after clicking Download & Install on Stable, hmm.

>>109587359
Some PCs get it others don't. Part of the A/B testing.

>>109588032
Figured, just find it insanely cringe that 99% of cool stuff is A/B and/or Gradual Rollout.

what's a good (free or easy to pirate) anti-virus

>>109588500
Windows Defender is better than the rest, unironically and factually.

>>109588510
i'll just do a quick scan and clean-up if necessary, i dont want an active anti-virus. i have defender disabled completely and it'd be too much of a hassle to enable it and disable it again, it would probably fuck with some of my settings

>>109588532
Then just get MBAM, you always get a free trial at the start, do your thing and delete it.
Pretty sure Kaspersky gives you a free trial on a fresh install as well.

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Remember the WMI score? Funny how internally it still exists, but everyone forgot about it by now.

>>109588500
uBlock origin
noScript
a decent dns
run any questionable files thru virustotal before opening
anti-virus are a joke these days
any real malware wont have a sgnature in the database and will avoid hueristic scans
keep your system clean and use ublock advanced mode or noscript and VT after download

The reason an anti-virus was a must back in the day was because we were hooking up Windows XP PC's directly to modems, no NAT to stop the ass rape so having an active defense on the PC was a must.

It's always surreal that I set up group policies and shit and then look at a normie's computer and it's the centered light theme Windows 11 taskbar with the search and copilot buttons

>>109589186
Normies do not give a shit about comfort / making things feel 'homey'.

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>one week later
>WU pulls all this shit
Yep, the group policy works exactly as intended. Nice.

>>109589455
I disabled it via Services & GPEdit, it's still off since I installed 24H2.

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I finally decided to install Supermium after years of using an old unsupported Chrome version on my W7 chinkpad, only for it to crash after a few hours and it just turns out it is a common problem?
https://github.com/win32ss/supermium/issues/1803
Wasn't the whole point of Supermium to run well on old systems? I have 16gb of ram a similarly sized pagefile, with Chrome I could have literally thousands of opened tabs with the help of extensions like the great sleeper or unloader or something like that.

Why is Chromiums virtual memory usage so high? Even with empty new tabs consumption creeps up rather quickly. I don't care about privacy features if it means I can my retarded tab hoarding adhd spirit free

>>109591044
>Why is Chromiums virtual memory usage so high?
*Supermium I meant. Also it's just virtual memory, actual ram usage is fine. There has to be a flag or setting I can change right?

>>109588590
it was completely useless but fun to compare online

>>109591044
>>109591074
chrome is not for old systems. the hardware acceleration bloats the requirements. no hardware acceleration makes websites slow. you want firefox.

>>109555856
I personally like BCUninstaller

best clone tool?

>>109588590
it always made me feel bad about my shitty laptops

>>109591874
Macrium Reflect Free or Rescuezilla

>>109591150
>hardware acceleration
I disabled it. Still getting about 300mb of virtual memory committed for each new tab even if it's empty.

>you want firefox.
Wew no. Firefox is way worse with out of memory issues.

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I'm literally using it now.
Windows 10 22H2
Supermium (20 tabs) + Unity 6 = 12/16gb

Can you get KVM/QEMU-level performance on a virtual machine on WIndows?
The best thing I could find is VMWare Workstation with Hyper-V disabled. That means WSL2 wouldn't work, but I guess I could live with that.

>>109592560
>Wew no. Firefox is way worse with out of memory issues.
what utter bullshit

>>109595467
Why does it work worse for you if Hyper-V is enabled? Having it enabled would increase performance to near-native would it not?

>>109595498
I haven't tried turning Hyper-V off yet, but I've read that it works as an extra layer, so if it's enabled, VMWare would have to talk through Hyper-V instead of just using the CPU support for virtualization itself. Is this not a thing?
I've researched this a few months ago, but I'm just now getting to setting it up.

>>109595523
Yes, but hyper-v is the type 1 hypervisor from microsoft, so it's a bit like KVM or Xen. I'm not sure if it's faster or slower than just letting VMware handle virtualization.

>>109595467
You have to disable Hyper-V it runs like absolute shit otherwise.

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The fuck?

Any of you gays managed to get Small Taskbar & Taskbar Customization in general yet?

>>109596938
they're not in main channel yet, you have to be in a preview channel to get them

>>109597080
Don't those shits start rolling as optional updates a week after release preview to stable?

>>109597176
not necessarily, some preview channel features can stay there for a few weeks, perhaps even months before they get to the main channel

so can i already move on from windows 10 iot ltsc or not yet

>>109601660
You can in-place upgrade to IoT LTSC 2024 if you want.

>>109599140
damnit i'm trying to avoid lolis and this happens
SEX

>>109601668
Hmmm... my computer is not that good, but i want to try it, i'm sick of windows 10...

>>109601679
The performance should be basically similar, 11 IoT LTSC can run on some pretty old PCs.

>>109601683
>>109601679
11 LTSC is so low end friendly it can run on DX10 capable GPUs like the Radeon 4870.

Other versions of Windows require a DX12 GPU or it wont even let you use the desktop.

>>109601696
i should use windows 11 ltsc + the preview right

>>109601696
I'm using Intel HD Graphics 4000

>>109582071
>Getting "INTERNAL_POWER_ERROR (0xA0)" once a day since installing my intel arc b580. Before that I had been using the igpu in my 7600x with zero issues.
>Did a clean install of the latest drivers, both in normal mode as well as using DDU. Still happens. The newest intel Driver from a few days ago also doesn't help.
>I'm clueless as to what else could be a fix.
I don't know I have an intel arc b580 on Windows LTSC iot 2021, I don't have issues are you running a version consumer version of Windows? I am running the latest 32.0.101.8974 (WHQL).

Idk if I'm going crazy, but since the latest preview update I feel like my audio is of better quality, as in, it's way more "clear".